Improvement in eoese-shoes



JAMES JOREY, QFWESTVILLE, CONNECTICUT Letters Patent No. 74,829, dotted February 25 1868.

IMPROVEMENT Ill EQRSE-SHOES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it knpwn that I, JAMES JOR'EY, of Westville, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut,

have invented a new and improved Horseshoe; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those. skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. r

This invention relates to a new and improved horse-shoe of that class which are provided with removable or detachable calks.

' The invention consists in having the calks constructed and applied to the shoe in such a manner that they may be not only detached from the shoe, but also reversed and secured thereto in such reversed position as to admit of a fresh cutting or sharp edge for the calks being obtained, the callis being constructed with two edges to obtain this result. i

If necessary, or desired, one edge of the calks may be made sharp and the other comparatively -blunt,so that a horse may, by a very simple adjustment of the calks, be provided'with either sharp or blunt ealks, be either sharp or rough shed, the latter condition being preferable when the roads are not very slippery or icy, and the former condition preferable when there is much ice. -Inthe accompanying sheet of drawings-- Figure 1 is an inverted plan or under view of a, horse-shoe provided with my improvement.

Figure 2, a vertical section of the same, taken in the line a x, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. r

A represents a horse-shoe, which may be constructed in the usual or in any proper manner, and B reprecents a toe-calk, which is secured to the front of the underside of the shoe by means of two screws, aa. This ealk is constructed of a piece of fiat steel, or a steel plate, having itsfron tand rear partsflr b, bent outward at right angles from the main portion, at opposite sides thereof, (see fig. 2,) so that when the part b is used for the tread-portion, the other part, b, will be up behind the front part of the shoe.

By this means the calk isprovided with two tread-portions, either of which maybe used, as desired, so that when one becomes worn the other may be adapted for use by simply detaching and reversing the calk. And, ifnecessary, one part, I), of the call: may be made with a blunt edge, and the other part, b, with a sharp edge, the blunt part 6 being preferable when the roads are not very slippery or-icy, as they are not so liable to be affected by wear. Sharp calks soon wear blunt on'hard-frozen ground, and become inefiicient on ice.

My improvemcnt, it will be'seen,admits of the calks being readily adapted to suit the condition of the roads.

Heel-calks, C, may be construeted and applied to the shoe in substantially the same way as the toe-calks above described. t W

The bodies or mainportions of all the calks may be fitted in recesses in the bottom of the shoe, in order to preservethe screws from unduest-rain, and to more firmly secure the calks to the shoe.

I do not claim a removable or detachablefcalk for a horse-shoe, for they have been previously used; but

I do claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent A calk for a horse-shoe provided with two edges, and constructed and applied to the shoe in such a manner that it maybe detached and reversed and either edge adapted for use, as circumstances mayrequire.

JAMES Jonnr.

Witnesses:

Luann B. Mortars, EDWARD D. MnnRIMAN. 

